Author: Hannah Robbins

• “Well, we wouldn’t recommend that”:

  Aug 19

  An adventure in purchasing an engagement ring When I proposed to my partner, I thought that I would like a ring, but I’d also told myself that I could buy… more ›

• The proposal that wasn’t

  Aug 15

  About three months ago, I decided that I would like to propose to my partner. We had had “marriage chats” so I was not proposing blind. I was 99% certain… more ›

• Day 1: An Introductory Letter

  Aug 1

  Hello, and welcome to my research diary or “living bibliography”! I am an academic, working on musicals and popular culture in America and Britain. My writing focuses mainly on how… more ›

• Living Bibliography

  Aug 1

  “This project is, of necessity, wildly but carefully undisciplined.”[1] My living bibliography practice stems from a frustration and tension of talking most about my work to “non-academic” audiences while being… more ›

• Things you may not know about applying for a PhD in the Arts and Humanities in the U.K.

  May 16

  Hello. This is a very short resource for people looking at the PhD application process in the UK right now. Some of this information may be obvious but there is… more ›

• An Abundance of Listening

  Mar 29

  This blog is written during the March 2022 strikes in UK higher education. I am on strike and trying to balance spending time with my puppy Sula, resting, and spending… more ›

• To the nerd I loved the longest, 

  Oct 29

  You kept your apps in alphabetical order. All of them. Weirdo.  Why is WhatsApp four screens away? Absolute nerd. You knew every word to every song by Belle and Sebastian. … more ›

• My Kind of Spark: On Neurodivergence and Unlearning.

  Oct 24

  This post is inspired by Elle McNicoll’s book A Kind of Spark. The book is about a neurodivergent girl called Addie who campaigns to get a memorial for women killed… more ›

• Dear Britney, I hope you get justice.

  Jun 25

  Content note: this post discusses coercive behaviour and domestic abuse. I don’t know anything about conservatorship. This post isn’t about that. And it’s not about mental health and legal rights.… more ›

• A reflection on best practice and duty of care in British academia

  Mar 9

  I get a lot of questions about my teaching practice, my pastoral attitudes, and the relationship between my research that connects many aspects of identity with improving Equality, Diversity, and… more ›